17-Nov-2016

In September, Nick Hillary was acquitted of murdering Garrett Phillips. There was no DNA linking him to the upstate New York crime. Judge Felix Catena found New Zealand's STRmix™ computer analysis of fingernail evidence inadmissible. The prosecution could not introduce unreliable DNA results at trial.

In October, Dr. Mark Perlin of Cybergenetics gave a 45 minute talk at the Legal Aid Society's Questioning Forensics: Inside the Black Box conference at Cardozo Law School in New York City. His presentation, "Fighting for DNA justice: genotyping software in the Hillary acquittal," explains the DNA evidence in the Hillary case.